Donna Tartt

2 books in Jim's library, sorted by rating.

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

4/5

fiction

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

4/5

fiction

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

4/5

Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the aftermath, he clings to a small, priceless painting — Carel Fabritius's "The Goldfinch." As he grows up, the painting becomes both his burden and his salvation, pulling him into the criminal underworld of art.

fiction

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

4/5

A group of eccentric classics students at an elite Vermont college become so obsessed with Greek ideals of beauty and perfection that they cross a terrible moral boundary. A reverse murder mystery that reveals the killing on page one, then unravels the why.

fiction